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The emergency package comes after dozens of companies and government agencies were hit by unauthorized access to their systems and leaks of client data, prompting uneasiness across Japan.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Synology warns about NAS ransomware attacks, Flowise ‘hello’ attacks, Chainalysis breach impact expands.

Hackers created an account on an internal system and accessed names, email addresses, phone numbers, and business addresses.

Rated Critical for cybersecurity, OpenAI’s new model beats GPT-5.6 Cyber at exploitation while staying in scope more reliably.

The recommendations come amid attacks targeting fridges and freezers in supermarkets and blood banks in Europe.

The October incident will cut fourth-quarter sales by up to €250 million and has led Ahold Delhaize to lower its 2026 outlook.

In a month, 28 residential proxy services used 6 addresses, mainly between 5 p.m. and midnight, Eastern Time.

On Linux distributions using musl libc without PAM, some accounts accept any password between 257 and 1024 characters.

After its sandbox proxy failed, an internal OpenAI model crafted raw packets and probed AWS services trying to reach the internet.

The trio, who have nicknames that include “Rocky Balboa,” “Superman Cash” and “Fat Boy,” often targeted the companies’ accounting departments.

An unreleased OpenAI cyber model found and exploited 948 distinct Linux kernel privilege escalation bugs for about $1.2 million.

More than 200 sites were seen serving phishing content to first-time visitors but not to those who revisit.

The incident comes after supermarkets in a number of European countries reported this week that their fridges and freezers warmed up after they were remotely hacked.

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In a month, 28 residential proxy services used 6 addresses, mainly between 5 p.m. and midnight, Eastern Time.

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On Linux distributions using musl libc without PAM, some accounts accept any password between 257 and 1024 characters.

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An unreleased OpenAI cyber model found and exploited 948 distinct Linux kernel privilege escalation bugs for about $1.2 million.

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Tracked as CVE-2026-107441, the out-of-bounds write flaw could allow attackers to execute OS commands via crafted HTTP requests.

The large-scale watering hole campaign has been targeting entities in the US and Europe, mainly in Ukraine.

Hackers have been harvesting AI access tokens and have been using AI-assisted offensive tools to automate attacks.

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A new survey into cloud concerns undertaken by database security firm HexaTier provides no surprises: security risks (44%) followed by compliance and regulation (29%) are the two biggest factors preventing greater cloud adoption (although we are specifically talking about database as a service rather than cloud in general).

The controversial case in which the FBI asked Apple to unlock the iPhone belonging to the San Bernardino Islamic terrorist shooter appears to have ended after the law enforcemen

Researchers at Trend Micro have identified a serious vulnerability in door controllers developed by access control and secure identity solutions provider HID. The vendor has released a firmware update to address the issue and pointed out that the flaw does not affect HID readers. 

Cisco reported on Thursday that it has discovered a vulnerability in the Lhasa library that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on targeted systems.Lhasa is an open source tool and library used to parse and decompress LHA (.lzh) archives, and it’s offered as an alternative for the UNIX LHA utility.

Department of Defense Partners With HackerOne on First Federal Government Bug Bounty ProgramEarlier this month, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced "Hack the Pentagon," a new bug bounty program that will award security researchers who can discover vulnerabilities on the Pentagon's public web pages.

A new piece of ransomware apparently designed to encrypt files on websites running the popular Magento ecommerce solution has been spotted in the wild.The threat, dubbed “KimcilWare,” has been analyzed by researchers of the Malware Hunter Team and Lawrence Abrams of Bleeping Computer.

Remaiten Linux Bot Targets Routers and Potentially Other Embedded (IoT) DevicesA new piece of malware is targeting embedded systems with the mission to compromise and make them part of a botnet, ESET security researchers have discovered.

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